Lose Weight While You Lie In Bed

When I was in my late teens/early twenties I used to eat a lot of chocolate. Back then the British shop Woolworths used to sell a Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate bar they called 'The World's Largest Chocolate Bar'. It was 1.5kg and I used to eat one bar every day. I would eat 'normally' as well, so this one bar was in addition to my normal meals.

Knowing hypnosis I wanted to keep the weight off (I had a 28in waist back then) so I used to use hypnosis to increase my metabolism.

One day I met with other hypnotists and one of them questioned the ethical nature of my actions and said that I should exercise and not 'cheat' with hypnosis. Following this, for some reason I stopped being able to use hypnosis to speed up my metabolism in this way so I had to think of an alternative way of burning more calories.

What I found was that I could lie down in bed and imagine myself running along the seafront. I would start off with a vague image, and would focus in on the internal experience by imagining specific parts of running, so I would focus on the swing of my arms, what that would feel like, I would focus on the movement of my legs and on how my feet hit the ground. I would focus on how I would need to be breathing to be running optimally, and would allow myself to become absorbed in the experience of what I would see and hear and feel and smell as I ran along the beach.

All of this would increase my heart rate and increase my metabolism. After 30 minutes of doing this, despite lying in bed, I would feel hot and sweaty and would open my eyes still feeling my heart beating as if I had just been doing strenuous exercise.

This increased metabolism would then continue to be higher through the day. I often did this twice per day to keep weight off, once in the morning and once in the late afternoon. I didn't always lie down in bed to do it, as I got more skilled at it I could do it anywhere, so I could do it sat on a bench or chair, or anywhere I could close my eyes for about 30 minutes and let my mind drift inside.

This may sound unusual or unlikely, that I could do something in my mind which effects my body, but it is no different to what people do unintentionally every day. Many people worry about things. Worrying is imagining things that may happen, and many of those things don't happen. People that worry can give themselves a panic attack or feelings of anxiety, they can induce the 'fight or flight' response and find that their heart speeds up and adrenalin flows, and they feel sweaty or clammy. All responses that should only happen in the face of real danger.

Or if someone focuses on a lost loved one and allows themselves to be drawn into the thoughts and memories they can find themselves crying, or allowing your mind to be drawn in to happy thoughts of something that made you laugh can make you suddenly laugh again, which can be embarrassing when this takes you by surprise. So what you think influences your body, in the same way that how you feel and what your body does can influence the thoughts you have.

If you give this idea ago I look forward to hearing your experiences, and what results you get...